Race riots : comedy and ethnicity in modern British fiction /
Ross examines racial humour as a manifestation of post-colonialism and questions contemporary critiques of "political correctness." Looking at cartoons from pre-World War II issues of Punch, Ross shows how disdain for non-Europeans plays a key role in period British humour and links this i...
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Caliban and his progeny
- Inferiority complexions: the London charivari
- White mischief: Evelyn Waugh's African charivari
- Joyce Cary's tragic African clown
- Forster's funny bridge party: nation and humour in A passage to India
- Roman Catholic carnival: Muriel Spark's passage to Jerusalem
- The far and the near: Pym and Taylor
- Samuel Selvon and the carnival of reverse colonization
- Rerouting the comic: Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses
- "A funny kind of Englishman": Hanif Kureishi's carnival of ethnicities
- "Some subtleties of the isle": Matthew Kneale's anti-Tempest
- The empire laughs last.